The Old Lie

Melanie Kembrey in the Sydney Morning Herald:

"It is known as the 'overview effect', the profound shift in understanding that astronauts can experience when they see Earth from space. Claire G. Coleman's new novel, The Old Lie, evokes a similar transformation of perspective – taking us deep into the cosmos to reveal our home planet in all its beauty and horror.

Coleman doesn't write happy endings – she will, she says, when Aboriginal people have a happy ending. She wanted to be honest about the experience of being Aboriginal, not tell a new lie."

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Ariel Samson: Freelance Rabbi

Zachary D. Fasman, reviewing for the Jewish Book Council:

"Described as a semi-auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal sto­ry by the apt­ly named author, MaN­ish­tana, the wild­ly orig­i­nal nar­ra­tive and autho­r­i­al voice illu­mi­nates the world of Amer­i­can Jews of col­or, a group that has recent­ly received atten­tion, but oth­er­wise was long invis­i­ble to oth­ers. Imag­ine A Con­fed­er­a­cy of Dunces set in mod­ern Brook­lyn with New York hip­sters and a hos­tile rab­binic estab­lish­ment, and you’ve almost got it. But not quite."

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2018 Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award's Goldberg Award for Debut Fiction. 

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